EVANSVILLE – Competing on and off the field, the University of Evansville baseball team has been honored for an impressive season in the classroom, receiving the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award.
Along with recording its best season on the field since 2014, the Aces excelled academically, amassing a 3.313 GPA for the 2022 season. Evansville had five student-athletes finish the spring with a 4.0 semester GPA, including Danny Borgstrom, Tanner Craig, Tyler Denu, Niko Klebosits, and sophomore Donovan Schultz, who holds a cumulative GPA of 4.0 in sport communication.The American Baseball Coaches Association’s Team Academic Excellence Award honors high school and college programs coached by ABCA members that post a cumulative Grade Point Average over 3.0 on a 4.0 scale. This year, the ABCA honored nearly 700 member high school and college programs. Evansville was one of five Valley teams to earn the award, joining Bradley, Illinois State, Indiana State, and Valparaiso.
Criteria for the ABCA Team Academic Excellence Award include:
- Must be a high school or college team
- Head coach must be a current ABCA member
- Team must have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale during the 2021-22 academic year. GPA may not be rounded up.
The American Baseball Coaches Association has a long tradition of recognizing the achievements of baseball coaches and student-athletes. The ABCA/Rawlings All-America Teams are the nation’s oldest, founded in 1949, and the ABCA’s awards program also includes the ABCA/Rawlings All-Region Awards, the ABCA/ATEC Regional & National Coaches of the Year and several other major awards such as the ABCA Hall of Fame and Dave Keilitz Ethics in Coaching Award.
